“I came back from vacation because I am furious, furious, about how the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown is being reported and how various people are reacting to it,” O’Reilly said on his show “The O’Reilly Factor” on Wednesday.

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O’Reilly said only four people arrested on Monday in Ferguson were from the small Missouri town.

“But the liberal media will never report that, nor will they report the true picture of criminal justice in the USA” O’Reilly said. “Instead, NBC News pays Al Sharpton to deliver garbage.”

Sharpton has played an active role in Ferguson since Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old, was shot and killed on the streets of the St. Louis suburb. Sharpton in the past has been known as an outspoken critic of police brutality. Sharpton is also scheduled to deliver a eulogy at Brown’s funeral, and Michael Brown’s parents are expected to attend a Staten Island rally that Sharpton is leading Saturday.

The “Factor” host played a short clip of Sharpton in Ferguson saying that the community “[has] had enough.”

“Enough of what, Al?” O’Reilly said. “Police efficiency?”

He continued, “Al Sharpton has the nerve to insult the American police community, men and women risking their lives to protect us. This charlatan has the gall to do that and NBC News is paying him? My god. Why is this acceptable?”

O’Reilly said that, under the Constitution, Darren Wilson, the police officer identified as responsible for killing Brown, is “entitled to the presumption of innocence,” something O’Reilly says “Al Sharpton will never give him.”

“Sharpton only cares about his own self-aggrandizement and if he has to stoke racial hatred to get that, that’s what Sharpton will do,” O’Reilly said. “I know this man: His record defines him.”